It's Release Day!

We made it!  Much Aloha and Mahalo to our Design Team- Debi, Eva, and Linda for your awesome projects!  And a big Thank You to Lysa for bringing fresh designs and inspiration!

Our new release is now available!  I made some samples to give to our retailers using both Momotaro and Sakura-chan images.  Decided to make tags this time... 

Hope you remembered to enter to win our blog candy givaway!  I will be picking the winners soon and will post it here.  Good Luck!

Hello Baby!

Yay!  We made it to the end of our previews!  Did you like our new release projects?  Hope they inspired you and gave you some ideas on how to use our images.

A big mahalo to our Guest Designer for this release- Lysa!  Thanks Lysa for all of your awesome projects!

And a big arigato to my design team!

Debi

Eva

Linda

Linda's You Tube Channel

Don't forget to check them out too and give them some love!

So, I've recently re-discovered my interactive card roots.  I love when cards have mechanical features that make them slide, pop up, etc.  I actually took a class from my good friend Debi once upon a time to learn how to make this card!  I adapted it so that it was a larger size, but its basically the same mechanics.  I forgot how much fun interactive cards can be!

So I decided to feature Sakura-chan on this card.  I found this cute paper by Bo Bunny and knew this was the perfect cardstock for my project!  It's so sweet and babyish.  It's a really light pink- almost like a peachy color, so that's the color I used for her sakura.  Here's a close up of Sakura-chan.

When you pull the tab at the top, the card pops up to reveal the message below.  I used another Walter and Winnie sentiment from the same set.  Had to position the flowers so that they did not get caught in the mechanism when the card is opened and closed.

Well, hope you enjoyed all the previews!  Don't forget to enter into our blog candy giveaway!

Introducing... Sakura-chan

Hello there friends!  Our new release images are so sweet and perfect for any baby projects you may have!  Totally wish I had these when my daughter was born!  But I can still use these cuties for my scrapbooking projects and they are good sized for making your own pocket scrapbooking cards.

Let me just say that this image was not named after anyone I know.  I just thought that since she was being born out of a cherry blossom, I wanted to call her Sakura.

I have to say, that I'm a little partial to our first image from this release.  My family has a lot of girls.  I have one sister (and one brother), I have a daughter, my brother has two daughters and his wife has two sisters, my sister has a sister in law and two nieces!  So let's just say we don't have too many males in our family.  You get the picture right?  OK on to the project!

I decided to revisit the good old gatefold card. I keep forgetting about this style card and thought it was a good layout for my project.  Since I wanted the card to be super girly, I selected some very light pink washi paper by Hanko Designs.  I love this paper!  I guess pastels always remind me of babies.

After I colored and cut up Sakura-chan, I die cut a sakura from my Lifestyle Crafts nesting dies.  And that's prety much it!  Easy peasy!

Here's a closer look at Sakura-chan.

This image reminds me of my daughter's baby luau.  For our centerpieces, my Aunty Jan made these cute Japanese girls from glass vases, styrofoam balls, and washi paper!  Kinda reminds me of Sakura-chan now that I look at it.

Do you want a chance to win Sakura-chan?  If so, here's what you have to do:
1)  leave a comment on THIS POST by 11:59pm HST on 05/31/14; and
2)  tell me what kind of project you would use this image on!

Check back tomorrow for another intro..

A Very Special Delivery- Release #23 Coming Soon!

Can't wait to share with you our new release images!  Here's a peek at what's to come...

These images are perfect for baby cards, announcements, and backgrounds!  Stop by this week to catch our previews and enter to win our blog candy!